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Publish Date : 13 July 2016 - 00:47  ,  
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IRGC keeps close watch on foreign vessels: Navy commander

TEHRAN (Basirat)- The second-in-command of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy says the forces are keeping a close eye on all foreign vessels in the Persian Gulf.

The second-in-command of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy says the forces are keeping a close eye on all foreign vessels in the Persian Gulf. 

PressTV reports:

"Monitoring foreign vessels in the IRGC Navy’s operational area is nothing new and this mission has always and continuously been and will be carried out round the clock,” Flotilla Admiral Alireza Tangsiri said on Tuesday.

His remarks followed a Monday report by the US-based daily Wall Street Journal that five IRGC boats had "maneuvered dangerously close” USS New Orleans warship in the Strait of Hormuz. General Joe Votel, the head of US Central Command, was on board the US amphibious ship at the time.

Tangsiri added that the IRGC forces "closely and carefully” follows the movements and the itinerary of "foreign countries, particularly trans-regional states and specifically the enemies of the Islamic Revolution [and] the Great Satan, the US whose presence is natural threat and absolute evil for us.”

He said foreign forces have "fully come to terms with” the surveillance by Iran that has been going on for years and "the issues raised in foreign media stems from an incorrect understanding of the matter and are irrelevant.”

On January 13, ten US sailors were captured by naval forces of the IRGC in the Persian Gulf. The sailors were shortly released after admitting that they wrongly drifted into Iranian territorial waters.

Meanwhile Iran's Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari said on Saturday that Iranian naval forces will stage large-scale drills in early 2017 to boost and put on display the country’s military prowess.

"The big Velayat 95 maneuver will be staged with the purpose of promoting and displaying the capabilities of the Islamic Republic of Iran in defending the country’s sea borders and interests,” the Navy commander added.

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